Word: partner
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...title refers not to Castro's island but to an illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that...
...plastic trash is the tiny polyethylene pellets used in the manufacture of plastic items. In one survey, researchers calculated that, on average, a square mile of the Sargasso Sea, southeast of Florida, contained between 8,000 and 10,000 bobbing pellets. Says Al Pruter, a fishery biologist and partner in a Seattle-based natural- resources consulting firm: "Almost without exception, surveys show plastic to account for over one-half the man-made products on the ocean surface...
...accountants with questions about the tax plan as they rushed to decide whether to support or condemn the bill, which is scheduled for debate by the full Senate early next month. "I've had to replace my phone handle several times in the past week," quipped Barry Wallach, a partner with the Chicago-based Arthur Andersen accounting firm...
...worldwide market, while an assortment of relatively puny competitors gets the rest. But one of those companies, Detroit's Burroughs (1985 sales: $5 billion), is determined to acquire one of its fellow underdogs and give Big Blue a run for its data. Burroughs has chosen as its partner-to-be a somewhat larger competitor, Sperry of New York City (fiscal 1986 sales: $5.7 billion). The two companies, which each have about 6% of the market, would together become the world's second largest computer maker. But a rather crucial problem has plagued the courtship from its start almost a year...
Grief got Viscott into the card-writing game. When his first marriage was breaking up, he found himself trudging sadly along a Cape Cod beach, jotting down notes about some of his jumbled feelings. Later he showed them to his business partner, who said excitedly, "You know what you have here? These are greeting-card messages!" Viscott launched a card company, then signed on with American Greetings when the business failed. Says Viscott: "Once I heard a voice saying 'Someday you will tell people what they really feel inside,' and that's what...